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london calling…across the folly ditch

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Dave

Jacob’s Island was one of the most notorious of the riverside slums in early Victorian England. Accessible only by rickety wooden bridges that spanned odorous and oozy ditches, Jacob’s Island was a noisome enclave of decaying houses whose windows, windows … Continue reading →

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NOSTALGIA, MISERY & MEMORY

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Dave

Its a marked an obvious pattern in Dickens;  a depiction of characters who employ nostalgic remembrance in a way that critiques this mode of selective memory, showing it to be harmful to both the self, who desires to remember only … Continue reading →

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BETRAYED BY GUILT: MORDANT THEMES & PATHOLOGICAL DREAMS

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Dave

”’Dickens novels are not about violence, but they have a great deal of violence in them — physical violence, psychic violence, obsession, cruelty, abuse, the works,” says Steven Marcus, George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and the … Continue reading →

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